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What Is Death?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Do You Want to Live Forever?

I would say 120 is about a natural limit for neurons without replacing them. I think we're not so far off being able to keep different organs alive, replace tissues and so on. Why wouldn't you want to live forever? My wife would kill me if I lived forever. At some point, Doctor, who will be cancelled, and then what's the point? So... Nothing sums up our core demographic more than that answer. Is a strawberry dead? Only if you kill it. What would constitute killing it? Boiling it, freezing it. Do a bull, potentially, but not in a hurry. But do we even want to try? None of this world would exist if it

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